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Hard Labor Creek Board Agrees To Pay Extra $410,000 For Professional Services To Keep Dam Construction On Schedule
The Board voted on the contract extension for engineering services and also to spend $800,000 on recreational facilities.
The Hard Labor Creek Regional Reservoir Management Board deliberated nearly 30 minutes at its regular meeting on Tuesday before deciding it had no alternative but to pay an additional $410,000 for professional services for the ongoing construction of the dam.
Schnabel Engineering, with offices in Alpharetta, requested the additional payment on top of the $923,000 originally agreed upon, or a 44.4 percent increase, to continue construction testing and engineering services for the dam through April 1 of 2015.
Before voting to agree to the payment to Schnabel, the Management Board asked Project Manager Jimmy Parker of Precision Planning Incorporated to get detailed figures on the costs with the goal of transferring some of the costs to Layne Heavy Civil Inc.
Layne, a global construction company with offices in Fairburn in Fulton county, has the $17.8 million contract for construction of the dam and reservoir.
In other action on Tuesday, the Management Board decided to spend $800,000 for construction of recreational facilities at the reservoir. Walton County will be responsible for $569,600 of that cost, with Oconee County responsible $230,400.
For more on the story, go to Oconee County Observations.
Pictured: The dam in December of 2014.